1997.05.02 21:24 "Re: BIG TIFF file problems", by Ed Grissom

In a previous message, Niles writes:
>Ed Grissom writes (regarding <4GB TIFF limitation),
> > If anyone knows about plans for getting around either of these problems
> > in TIFF 7.0, I'd sure like to hear about them.
>
> I doubt it will make the TIFF 7.0 spec, which is under review
> somewhere (are you still out there, Brian?). TIFF 8.0 maybe.
Are there any raster file formats that address this issue ? I have not
found any. If this is not to be addressed in TIFF 7.0, we may take
Niles B.O.t.E. design and begin generating (not for general interchange)
64-bit addressable TIFF-type images. Anyone want to add to the design ?
I have heard hints of TIFF 7.0 in the works at Adobe. Am I remembering
wrong, or wasn't there much more discussion on this list (or another ad
hoc one) prior to the release of the TIFF 6.0 spec ? Does anyone know
if Adobe plans for any public comment period for TIFF 7.0 or, even
better, a discussion of what is desired in TIFF 7.0 ? Perhaps I missed
it.
> I would venture to say that to change this part of
> TIFF would require changing the version number from 42 to 56.
> (a gin-and-tonic to the first person to get this obscure half-joke).
Using up all the numbers in the old Chicago song "25 or 6 to 4" ?
TIFF 6.0 - 6x7 = 42
TIFF 8.0 - 8x7 = 56 ?
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ed grissom
egrissom@ingr.com